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Yes, call it inflation. Money/points earned in the past isn't worth as much as money earned today.
by frosted-flakes 7y ago
Yes, call it inflation. Money/points earned in the past isn't worth as much as money earned today.
- blowski 7y agoThis happens anyway, because the number of points in circulation increases. 10 years ago, having 20K points on StackOverflow was both more rare and meaningful than today. If an answer is no longer relevant, it will, stop being upvoted, possibly even downvoted. So it’s score will become lower relative to newer, more correct answers. At least that’s the theory. The problem is the discouragement of asking new questions, the pointlessness of a new answer on a 10 year old question with 1,000 upvotes, search engines sending people to out of date answers, and that the upvotes don’t account for knowledge and experience. I have no idea how to solve those problems.